Top 1200 Merely Existing Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time.

It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones.

It's a very difficult thing to adapt a piece of existing material into film.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Love is a sickness. Some kind of a pathogen existing above all explanation.

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

I'm not inventing anything new, I'm just using existing material differently.

Insurance companies can no longer refuse to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.

We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.

Clients usually come to me when they want to update the look of an existing room.

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

We live in a dangerous world, and Russia has not complied with existing treaties.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

Like half of Kentucky, my family has pre-existing conditions.

Everyone understands that penalizing people for pre-existing condition is unfair.

Stories are relics, part of an undiscovered pre-existing world.

Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.

There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

Corporations are social institutions. If they don't serve society, they have no business existing

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.

Innovation comes from recombining existing technology and different perspectives in innovative ways.

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

There are many people for whom 'thinking' necessarily means identifying with existing trends.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

I see the Past, Present & Future existing all at once Before me.

I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

I don't know many people without pre-existing conditions.

Let's not forget, we are all one diagnosis away from having a pre-existing condition.

If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

You gain converts by winning at something the existing provider didn't think was so important.

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Young African-American males: Stop existing. It could get you killed.

Human creativity uses what is already existing and available and changes it in unpredictable ways.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.

A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change.

But no customer is going to buy based on their existing wage structure.

I don't say that the drunk man is the real man, and the sober man merely a shell. But you find out something different about people when they're drunk. Of course, you sometimes find that they're not different at all--that you merely get more of the same, perhaps said rather more loudly and incoherently, but basically the same.